Researchers at the Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National Security and Technology are preparing to send an amateur radio transponder into a geosynchronous orbit in 2017. "Seven days a week, 24 hours a ...

Illustration of the Geosynchronous Auxiliary Support Tanker, or GAS-T. Credit: Northrop Grumman WASHINGTON — A satellite refueling nozzle developed by Northrop Grumman is the first to be selected as a ...

Engineers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL) Naval Center for Space Technology (NCST) recently completed robotic payload component level testing for the Defense Advanced Research Projects ...

Two Chinese satellites have rendezvoused with one another more than 20,000 miles above the Earth in what analysts believe is the first high-altitude attempt at orbital refueling. China’s Shijian-21 ...

An artist's rendition of DARPA's RSGS robotic payload on board SpaceLogistics' Mission Robotic Vehicle. (Northrop Grumman) SpaceLogistics will work with DARPA to develop a robotic servicing spacecraft ...

The 1st Space Operations Squadron has upgraded the Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program's ground system. (U.S. Air Force) The 1st Space Operations Squadron recently completed a major ...

Last Saturday (March 15) a Russian Proton Breeze-M launch vehicle failed to place the AMC-14 satellite into geosynchronous orbit. SES Americom, operator of the satellite, confirmed that “an anomaly ...

A small asteroid came within a cosmic hairbreadth of the ring of communications satellites circling the Earth in geosynchronous orbit this week. Passing by our planet at an altitude of about 35,000 km ...

CENTENNIAL, Colo., April 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- True Anomaly Inc., the technology company developing advanced hardware and software systems to ensure the sustainable security of space, today ...

Early this evening in Florida, space transport company SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket on a trajectory to place a satellite in geosynchronous orbit. The success comes on the third ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The Pentagon plans to end procurements of very large geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) infrared satellites that provide initial warning of ballistic missile launches anywhere on ...

A geosynchronous orbit is a geocentric orbit that has the same orbital period as the sidereal rotation period of the Earth. It has a semi-major axis of 42,164 km (26,200 miles). In the special case of ...